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Vol. 1, Issue 320 n Friday n July 15, 2011 No. of pages: 8 n Price: Rs 2BangaloreBeat

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Bikers, youʼvereached destination

If you are a biker, you would have reachedyour destination here. The Legends Motorcycling Café and Museum that isopening on Sunday in Frazer Town is full ofvintage motorbikes and other biking relatedtidbits, says Aknisree Karthik. Page 5

Beyond Beat

Devotees offer puja on the occasion of Guru Poornima at Thyagarajanagar Sai Baba temple today. Cele-brations were held across the city.

The day of the guruS Radhakrishna

SC raps Delhipolice for

shabby probein cash‑for‑vote New Delhi: The “callous” approach of DelhiPolice in probing the 2008 ‘cash-for-votescam’ came under severe criticism today fromthe Supreme Court which asked it why no cus-todial interrogation has been conducted in thecase so far.

“We are not happy at all with probe doneby the Delhi Police. This is not the way to provethe offence of such serious nature,” a benchheaded by Justice Aftab Alam said.

FULL REPORT ON PAGE 4

Foreign studentfound semi‑nude

Manjunath SharmaBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: A student from abroad who isstudying at a city college was found in a semi-naked state at Padmanabhanagar Rajkattearea on Sunday.

The passersby and a social worker, Ganesh,shifted her to Victoria Hospital for treatment.The doctors found out that the victim, Suraya(26), was not in her senses and treated her.


FBI inquiry oninto News Corp.9/11 tap claim

Washington: America’s FBI has started inquiryinto allegations that media mogul RupertMurdoch’s News Corp. tried to hack into thephones of 9/11 terror attack victims, media re-ports have said.

FBI’s decision to investigate came after itsDirector Robert Mueller received many requestin this regard from several lawmakers. The FBIroutinely makes preliminary inquiries into is-sues raised by lawmakers to determinewhether a full-blown investigation is needed.


Osama wasplanning US

attack: reportWashington: Slain al-Qaeda chief Osamabin Laden and his operations head wereplotting to attack the US on the occasion of the10th anniversary of the 9/11 strikes, a mediareport has said.

Bin Laden was shot dead by US comman-dos during a surprise raid at his safe house inPakistan’s garrison town of Abbottabad wherehe lived for the last five years.


OUR TARGET 150 ASSEMBLY SEATS: CMBJP executive committee meet begins at Hubli

Bangalore Beat Bureau

Hubli: The BJP should win at least 150 seats inthe next assembly elections scheduled for 2013 andwe are ready to give all kind of support to our work-ers, said chief minister B S Yeddyurappa at the BJPexecutive committee meeting here today.

He said, “The BJP that came to power in 2008has won all the by-elections since then, be it gramand zilla pacnchayat, parliamentary and assem-bly with the help of party workers. The partyshould win the next elections too convincingly.”

The two-day meeting is being held at Gokul Gar-den here.

The BJP has taken up a lot development worksin the state since it came to power. It has an-nounced a lot popular programmes for the ben-efit of the poor, downtrodden, women, elderly andchildren. Lakhs of people have benefited throughour programmes.”

“Despite all these development programmes,opposition parties are making baseless allegations.They have not been able to stomach the popularityof our government. Party workers should educatevoters about the various development works tak-en up by our government. The schemes include,Bhagyalakshmi bonds, free bicycle to school-

children, Sandhya Suraksha, old age, disabled andwidow pensions, Suvarna Bhoomi, loan at 1 per-cent interest to farmers and many others.”

He said, “I will not react to the statements madeby opposition parties outside Vidhana Soudha. Ifthey want any answer from me they should holdthe discussion on the floor of the assembly and Iwill answer them.”

Party state president K S Eshwarappa said, “Theexecutive committee meeting should prepareworkers from booth level up. They should be readyto work any time. Even today, the principles ofBaburao Deshpande are relevant. They shouldadopt his principles and works towards bettermentof the party. The BJP government that has astrength of 121 MLAs in the assembly should in-crease it to 150.”

“Party workers should give wide publicity to theprogrammes taken up by the government so thatthey citizens are aware of them,” he added.

PSLV carrying GSAT all set for blast‑offSriharikota (Andhra Pradesh): Ferrying thecountry’s latest communication satelliteGSAT-12A, a fully fuelled up rocket is all setto blast off from the space port here todayevening.

“All the four stages/engines have been fu-elled up. The countdown for the eveninglaunch is progressing well. Over the nextfew hours all the mandatory checks on allthe rocket systems will be carried out,” In-dian space agency director S. Satish toldIANS in Sriharikota, about 80 km fromChennai.

The director in charge of publicationsand public relations said fuelling of therocket’s second stage that began Thursdaynight was completed Friday morning.

Indian Space Research Organisation(ISRO) officials told IANS that the propel-lant and helium gas chambers are in the process of being adequately pres-surised.

The sky is clear and the weather good forthe launch of Rs.90 crore rocket, Polar Satel-lite Launch Vehicle-C17 (PSLV-C17), sched-uled at 4.48 p.m., officials said.

Around 20 minutes into the flight therocket is expected to place GSAT-12 in theintended sub-geosynchronous transfer or-bit (sub GTO).

The Rs 80 crore GSAT-12 satellite has 12extended C-band transponders - auto-matic receivers and transmitters for com-munication and broadcast of signals.

The satellite is expected to serve the VerySmall Aperture Terminal (V-SAT) sector.VSATs are used to transmit data like pointof sale transactions or to provide satelliteinternet access.

It will also be useful for various com-munication services like tele-education,tele-medicine and for village resource cen-tres.

The satellite will augment transpondercapacity of Indian National Satellite (Insat)system that presently comprises eightsatellites - Insat-2E, Insat-3A, Insat-3C, In-sat-3E, Insat-4A, Insat-4B, Insat-4CR andGSAT-8 providing 175 transponders in theS, C, extend C and Ku bands.

On Thursday, the rocket’s fourthstage/engine was fuelled with liquid pro-

pellants. The gas and propellant chamberswere pressurised.

The PSLV-C17 rocket standing 44 metrestall and weighing around 320 tonnes is afour-stage rocket powered by solid and liq-uid propellants alternatively.

The first and third stage engines are firedby a solid propellant and the second andfourth stages by a liquid propellant.

The solid fuel stages are cast readywhile the liquid propellant are filled onlyhours before the blast-off.

Continued on page 4

CM: NO POSCO PLANT IN GADAG AT ANY COST


Hubli: The state government willnot allow Posco steel plant to comeup in Gadag district at any cost, saidchief minister B S Yeddyurappa herethis morning.

Talking to reporters after taking aguard of honour at the district policegrounds, he said, “The matter isclosed. Even if farmers come for-ward to give up their lands for theproject, the government will notconsider it.”

“I have already directed the Gul-barga deputy commissioner to handover a letter on withdrawing allot-ment of land to Posco to Dr Sid-dalinga swamiji of TontadaryaMath,” he said.

“Apart from Gadag we will con-sider setting up the Posco unit wher-

ever the land is available and wher-ever farmers are willing to let go oftheir lands,” he said.

“Opposition parties are againstdevelopment and are instigatingfarmers to rebel against the govern-

ment. Even though farmers werewilling to give up their lands, theseparties are turning the issue into a po-litical game. I, as a farmer’s son,know the problems being faced bythe farming community. I will not go

against their will. I have valued thewords of seers, farmers and the peo-ple and then taken the decision to putoff the Posco project at Gadag.”

Farmers of Halligudi and other vil-lages in Mundargi district oppose set-ting up of the Posco steel plant.More than 7,000 acres were sup-posed to be acquired, but it was op-posed by math heads and farmers,who said the lands were fertile andthat they would lose their livelihoodif the lands were taken away fromthem. Some farmer leaders had al-leged that the chief minister andmajor industries minister MurugeshNirani have received kickbacks fromPosco to clear the project. They alsoalleged that the state government isgiving space to a company that hasbeen blacklisted by other states.

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DGP Guruprasadhas narrow escape


Bangalore: DGP Dr D V Gu-ruprasad had a narrow escapewhen his car hit another vehiclecoming from the opposite direc-tion today.

Guruprasad, who is fire andemergency services DGP, washeading towards Dharmasthalaalong with his family when theincident occurred. He and hisfamily were heading to the tem-ple town for the darshan of LordManjunatheshwara.

The police officer suffered mi-nor injuries. The accident tookplace near Kanyadi.

The DGP was immediately

rushed to a nearby hospital. Thedoctors who attended on thefamily said they had all receivedminor injuries and were out ofdanger.

Guruprasad was in news re-cently after he filed a case againstthe state government at the CATto consider him for the top postof DG and IGP as he was the sen-ior most police official. The UPSCtoo had stated that the top postshould go only to one of thethree officers it had shortlisted.The state government picked upNeelam Achuta Rao from amongthe list and appointed him theDG&IGP. Guruprasad is retiringon July 31.

Hostage rescued, gunfight starts in J&KSrinagar: A woman held hostageby four Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)militants in Jammu and Kashmirwas rescued today, police said.

A gunfight has now started be-tween the security forces andthe militants, they said.

“The exchange of gunfire be-tween the holed up terroristsand the security forces has nowstarted in the area,” Lt Col J SBrar, spokesman of the army’s15th corps, said here.

The guerrillas held the womanhostage in the morning in herhouse in Maidanpora village ofKupwara district in north Kash-mir, 84 km from here.

“The hostaged woman wasrescued by the security forces ina daring operation. The operationagainst the terrorists had to be de-layed in order to rescue thewoman,” said Brar.

Troops of 18 Rashtriya Rifles

and special operations group ofthe local police had surroundedthe house.

A top LeT commander is be-lieved to be one among these fourmilitants, a police officer said.IANS

Basha filescaveat in CMʼs

case against guvBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: A caveat has beenfiled in the Karnataka High Courtin a case related to the prosecu-tion of chief minister B S Yed-dyurappa in alleged land scan-dals.

Sirajin Basha, who has initi-ated the prosecution proceed-ings against the chief minister, to-day filed the caveat in the highcourt. The caveat asks the courtto hear the pleas of his and fellowadvocate K N Balaraj’s whenev-er it takes up chief minister’scase that was filed yesterday,questioning the authority of gov-ernor H R Bhardwaj to sanctionprosecution proceedings.

The two advocates had soughtpermission from the governorto prosecute Yeddyurappa forhis alleged involvement in illegalland deals. The governor gavethem the approval, which led tofiling of cases against the chiefminister in the Lokayukta specialcourt. But the proceedings werestayed after Yeddyurappa’s son-in-law Sohan Kumar filed a pe-tition before the high court.

The high court which washearing the case to vacate thestay admitted the petition filed bythe chief minister, who allegedthat the governor’s move allow-ing prosecution is against theConstitution. Yeddyurappa hassaid it is a conspiracy to pulldown his government.

The high court was supposedto take up the chief minister’scase for hearing today. But hadto postpone it following thecaveat filed by Basha.

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A newly constructed building for the Government Model Primary School at Chikkabidarikallu on the outskirts of the citywas inaugurated yesterday. Bangalore Round Table 7 constructed the building with all amenities free of cost. Bangalore

Round Table 7 president Prashanth and member Shah Sunil Bhatia were present.

Govt buiding inaugurated

Three‑day state‑level training on sample survey being held


Bangalore: A three-day state-level trainingfor the 68th National Sample Survey onhouse “household expenditure” and “em-ployment and unemployment” with a specialemphasis on ayurveda, siddha, unani andhomeopathy is being held in the city sinceyesterday.

Enumerators attached to deputy commissioner’s office and National SampleSurvey Organisation from all districts are taking part in the training onvarious aspects of enumeration and samplecollection. The workshop has technical ses-sions where the survey and its concepts bythe NSSO would be introduced to the trainees.They will be trained on collecting data on

consumer spending, entering the data andits validation.

The workshop was inaugurated by K PUnnikrishna, deputy director-general, zonaloffice, NSSO.

U R Subramanya, joint director, Directorateof Economics and Statistics, H E Ra-jashekarappa director, irectorate of Eco-nomics and Statistics and Ahmed Ayub,deputy director general, NSSO, were presenton the occasion.

Unnikrishna said, “The basis of conductingthis workshop is to train enumerators, offi-cials at NSSO and sample survey officerson the apects of enumeration and methods.”The 68th round that started from July 1 willcontinue till June 30 next year.

“The training for each round differs from

the other. Normally, NSSO surveys are con-ducted every five years. This one is beingconducted on the directions of the economicsministry,” Unnikrishna said.

What has been found from the survey isthat there is not detailed exhaustive dataon the periodic labourers, who move fromone place to another.

A pilot survey was conducted in Orissa,Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh, he said.Once a model of survey is found, it is devel-oped upon and introduced all over the coun-try, he added.

The sample surveys are important for theReserve Bank of India to formulate policies,for whole sale industries and to moderatethe industrial output. Overall, 512 samplesare collected for the survey.

State promoting dripirrigation: Minister

Bangalore: Karnatakaagriculture ministerUmesh Katti has saidthe state governmenthad taken initiatives topromote the practice ofdrip irrigation in culti-vation of sugarcane.

As part of the initia-tives, the governmenthad on a pilot basisasked over 58 sugarcanefactories to developaround 250 hectares ofland each using drip irrigationto demonstrate the advantagesof the method to farmers, hesaid.

The BJP government had al-located over Rs 67 crore for the

purpose in the currentyear, Katti said.

Advocating drip irri-gation, the minister saidthe procedure could helpin saving the quantumof water used and ener-gy, apart from ensuringbetter yields.

Currently only 28 percent of the total croparea was covered underthe drip method, whichcould be augmented to

50 per cent to ensure the saidsavings in water and power, hesaid.

Replying to a question, he de-nied irregularities in purchaseof drip irrigation equipment. PTI

IIBS signs MoU with

Mysore varsityto offer MBA

Chennai: International Instituteof Business Studies (IIBS) todaysigned a Memorandum of Un-derstanding with University ofMysore to offer Master of BusinessAdministration from this aca-demic year.

The two year course would beoffered out of the businessschool’s Bangalore campus, apress release here said.

After signing the MoU, IIBSChairman Dr Jay Prakash said:“The MBA course is formulatedkeeping in mind the require-ments of the corporate worldand would be supplementedwith overall skill developmentthrough IIBS’s finishing school.

Also to give global exposure,students admitted in this coursewould have the opportunity inan international seminar in anoverseas university”.

IIBS today offers MBA, BBM,BCA and B COM courses at itscampuses in Bangalore, Kolkataand Noida. PTI

Sonata Q1net profit

down by 51%Mumbai: Bangalore based ITcompany Sonata Software hasreported a 51 per cent decline inits consolidated net profit at Rs8.84 crore for the quarter endedon June 30, 2011.

During the same period a yearago, the company’s net profitstood at Rs 18.23 crore.

Total income of the companyfor the first quarter of the ongoingfinancial year was marginallyup at Rs 338.77 crore from Rs332.76 crore posted in the sameperiod a year ago.

Shares of company todayclosed at Rs 40.60 apiece, downby 5.36 per cent compared to itsprevious close, at BSE. PTI

CM: GIM 2012 WILL GET`5 LAKH CR INVESTMENT


Bangalore: Global Investors’ Meet next year willattract Rs 5 lakh crore investment which willcreate nearly 10 lakh jobs in the state, said chiefminister B S Yeddyurappa.

On the occasion of curtain-raiser for GIM 2012,he said the premier event will be held on June 7and 8. Next year’s GIM will be a catalyst to doublethe gross state domestic product by 2020, headded.

The GIM held last year was a great successwhich got investment to the tune of Rs 3.92 lakhcrore. Nearly 2,000 companies, 8,000 delegatesand 389 MoUs were signed. Twenty projects wereimplemented with an investment of Rs 1,500 crore.In all, 235 projects are under progress involvingRs 2.95 lakh crore. Nodal officers have been nom-inated to monitor the projects and report on theirprogress, he said.

The state government has got confidence withthe response it received during the last GIM andwill invite more during the next meet. Karnatakais the first state in the country to have the semi-conductor, mining, tourism, textile and energypolicies, he said.

The Integrated Agri Business DevelopmentPolicy has allowed the state government to holdthe first Agri GIM in November this year. “Throughthis, we expect an investment of Rs 55,000 crorein agri-related businesses, which will help farmers,”

he said.The Vision Group is advising the state govern-

ment and also helping it hold the Global Investors’Meets. “I thank CII, FKCCI, FICCI and other in-dustrial bodies for their support to the GIM 2012,”he added. “India has tremendous growth potential.We have generated millions of engineers, doctors,

management and other graduates,” said CII chair-man B Muthuraman.

“India, China and Singapore are continuouslygrowing, while the US, Japan and South Korea,which played a part in the economic growth areslowing down. We have to make use of this op-portunity,” he added.

“India has the largest cultivable land, largestindustrial lands and there is no shortage of water.We have got a lot of natural resources. But wehave to make use of these. Global rebalancing ismaking India strong enough. We have to marketourselves,” he said.

“Till 1991, we were importing product. Afterliberalisation we are competing with other in-dustrialized nations. Opportunities are greater inIndia. Mere presence of opportunities is not asuccess. We should work out and maintain thespirit to tackle this in world economic order,” hesaid.

“Karnataka has good natural resources, edu-cational institutions, medical and engineeringcolleges. The government has to make the bestuse of these for GIM 2012. More than 50 percentof the jobs should be routed out of Banglaore,”he added.

At the curtain-raiser ceremony, the governmentsigned MoUs with six companies.

Major industries minister Murugesh Nirani,higher education minister V S Acharya, energyminister Shobha Karandlaje, Bangalore CentralMP P C Mohan, chief secretary S V Ranganath,principal secretary industries and commerce de-partment Jyothiramalingam, and members of as-sociations like CII, FKCCI, FICCI, BCIC, KASSAIA,Assocham, Japanese Chamber of Commerce andIndustries Federation of Indian Export Organisationand FIEO were present on the occasion.

State gives nod to 28 new industrial projectsBangalore: Notwithstanding oppositionfrom farmers in parts of the state overland acquisition, the Karnataka govern-ment today approved 28 mega industrialprojects with an investment of Rs 8,622.41crore. The state high level committee forindustrial projects clearance, chaired bychief minister B S Yeddyurappa, accordedin-principle approval for the projects,which included the Honda Motorcycle

and Scooters India Ltd, to be set up at acost of Rs 1,350 crore in Narsapur Indus-trial area in Kolar district.

Giving details of the projects that gotthe committee’s approval, major industriesminister Murugesh Nirani said these proj-ects had the potential to generate 22,799jobs. The projects which got approvalare: automobile (2), ceramics (1), chemi-cals (2), education (1), engineering (2),

food processing (2), infrastructure (2),steel (3), IT park (1), petrochemicals (1),sugar (8), textile (1) and others two.

Mangalore Chemicals and Fertiliserswill manufacture urea, basic organicchemicals and other specialty fertilisersin Panabur village of Mangalore districtwith an investment of Rs 483 Crore, hesaid. Sugar factories with a total invest-ment of Rs 1,900 crore will be established

in Bijapur, Mysore, Bagalkote and Bel-gaum districts, Nirani said.

The meeting also approved change ofownership of the proposed Rs 36,000-crore steel plant in Bellary, which wastransferred by Brahmini Steels promotedby tourism minister G Janardhana Reddy,to Delhi-based company UttamGalwa.Reddy has sold his company’srights in favour of Galwa. PTI

391 autosfined

Bangalore: The police carriedout a drive against autorickshawsthat were carrying more thanthe specified number of school-children in them and fined 391three-wheelers. They collectedRs 39,100 in fines from the au-torickshaw drivers. The policeconducted the raids followingcomplaints that many accidentswere taking place because ofoverloading of students in thesevehicles, said a press note fromBangalore traffic police (west).The police asked the parents toknow as to how many studentsare carried in their children’sautorickshaws.

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DHAN DHANA DHAN (U) ½ Prem Kumar, Sharmila MandreBanashankari (Hongasandra) (11am, 2.15, 6.15, 9.15 pm) Gurusid-heshwara (11 am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30pm).

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLYHALLOWS (U/A)Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson,Rupert Grint“3D” Gopalan Cinemas (Bannerghat-ta Road) (10 am, 5, 7.30, 10 pm)Gopalan Cinemas (Mysore Road)(10 am, 5.30, 7.50, 10 pm) InnovativeMultiplex (12.15 pm, 2.30, 7.30, 10pm) Mukunda (5.30 pm, 8.30 pm)

Navrang (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30pm) Lakshmi (Tavarekere) (10.15am, 1.15, 5.15, 8.15 pm) Rex (12 pm,5.05, 7.30 pm) Tribhuvan (10.30am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm) Urvashi(11 am, 3, 6 pm)

LARRY CROWNE (U/A) Tom Hanks, Julia RobertFame Lido (12.35 pm, 7.35 pm) PVRCinemas (10 am, 2.40, 7.20, 10 pm)

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THEMOON (U/A) ½Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley“3D” Cinemax (2.15 pm, 7.15, 10pm) Fame Lido (10.15 am, 3.25,6.20, 9.15 pm) Fun Cinemas (12.45pm, 3.50, 6.55, 10 pm pm) GopalanCinemas (Bannerghatta Road) (10am, 4.30, 7.15, 10 pm) Gopalan Cin-emas (Mysore Road) (11 am, 1.45,9.30 pm) Inox (Malleswaram) (4.30pm) Laxmi (Tavarkere) (11 am, 1.45,5, 8.30 pm) PVR Cinemas (10 am,1, 6, 9 pm) Rex (12.25 pm, 3.10 pm)

Movie ListingsKANNADA

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MURDER 2 (A) ½Emraan Hashmi, Jacqueline Fer-nandezApsara (11.30 am, 2.15, 5.30, 8.30pm) Abhinay (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30,7.30 pm) Abhiman (Goripalya) (11am, 2.30, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Anand(3.30 pm, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Fame Fo-rum Value Mall (10.30 am, 2.50, 4,7, 9.30 pm) Fame Lido (10 am, 2.35,5, 9.35 pm) Fame (Shankarnag) (2pm) Fun Cinemas (10.10 am, 4.30,7.30 pm) HMT Cinemas (Jalahalli)(10.45 am, 9.45 pm) Inox (Jayanagar)(10.30 pm) Inox (JP Nagar) (10 am,7.30 pm) Inox (Magrath Road) (10am, 4.55, 9.40 pm) Inox (Mallesw-aram) (10 am, 2.55, 9.35 pm) Man-asa (2.30 am, 6.30, 9.30 pm) Rad-hakrishna (11.30 am, 2.30, 6.15,9.30 pm)

CHILLAR PARTY (U) Irrfan Khan, Divvji Handa,Vedant DesaiCinemax (1.15 pm, 6.15 pm) Cinepo-lis (12.45 pm) Fun Cinemas (12.30pm) Fame Forum Value Mall (10.10am) Fame Lido (10.45 am, 6.30 pm)Gopalan Cinemas (BannerghattaRoad) (10 am, 2, 7.10 pm) GopalanCinemas (Mysore Road) (10, 2.25,6 pm) Innovative Multiplex (10.15am, 12.30, 7.45 pm) Inox (Magrath

Road) (1.10 pm) Inox (Malleswaram)(10.25 am) Gopalan Cinemas (Ban-nerghatta Road) (10 am, 2, 7.10 pm)Gopalan Cinemas (Mysore Road)(10, 2.25, 6 pm) PVR Cinemas (12.30pm, 7.30 pm) Vision Cinemas (12.30pm, 5 pm)

BBUDDAH HOGA TERA BAAP (U/A)Big B, Prakash Raj, Hema Malini Aruna (11 am, 2.30, 6, 9.30 pm) In-novative Multiplex (5.45 pm) PVRCinemas (10.10 am, 5.10 pm) Shob-ha (10.30 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.30 pm)

DELHI BELLY (A) Imran Khan, Shehnaz Cauvery (11.30 am, 2.30 pm) Cine-max (10.15 am, 12.30, 3, 7, 10 pm)Cinepolis (10 am, 12, 2, 4, 6, 8 pm)Eshwari (11.15 am, 2.30, 6.15, 9.15pm) Fame Forum Value Mall (10am, 1, 3.40, 4.50, 7.55, 10 pm) FameLido (10 am, 12.50, 5, 10 pm) Inno-vative Multiplex (10.30 am, 1.15,5.40, 10 pm) Gopalan Cinemas (Ban-nerghatta Road) (10 am, 12.45, 2.35,10 pm) Gopalan Cinemas (MysoreRoad) (5.30 pm, 7.50 pm) Inox(Jayanagar) (12.25 pm, 5.20, 10 pm)Inox (JP Nagar) (10 am, 12.25, 2.30,10 pm) Inox (Magrath Road) (10.15am, 12.30, 2.45, 7.30, 10 pm) Inox(Malleswaram) (10 am, 12.55, 5.25,7.30, 10 pm).

HINDI

MALAYALAMSALT N PEPPER (U) Lal, Asif Ali, Swetha MenonGopalan Cinmeas (BannerghattaRoad) (5 pm) HMT Cinemas (9.45pm) Innovative Multiplex (10 pm)PVR Cinemas (9.30 pm) Sangeet(11.30 am, 2.45, 9.30 pm).RATHI NIRVEDAM (U/A) ½Shweta Menon, Sreejith VijayGalaxy Paradise (Hongasandra) (11am, 2.15, 6.15, 9.15 pm

ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA (U/A)Katrina, Farhan Akhtar, Hrithik, Abhay Deol and Kalki Koechlin

Cauvery (11.30 am, 2.30, 6, 9.15pm) Cinepolis (10 am, 12.15, 1.50,3.55, 6.45, 10 pm) Everest (10.30am, 2.30, 6.15, 9.30 pm) GopalanCinemas (Bannerghatta Road) (10am, 1, 2.45, 6.45 pm) HMT Cine-mas (1.30 pm, 7.15 pm) InnovativeMultiplex (11 am, 1.30, 4.30, 7.15,

10 pm) Inox (Jayanagar) (10 am,12.25, 3.20, 6.15, 9 pm) Inox (JPNagar) (10 am, 12, 3, 4.35, 6, 9pm) Inox (Magrath Road) (10 am,11, 12, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 pm) Inox(Malleswaram) (10 am, 12, 1, 3,4, 6, 7, 9 pm) Rex (2.25 pm, 9.50pm) Urvashi (9.30 pm).

CII chairman B Muthuraman, higher education and IT-BT minister V S Acharya, Chief minister B S Yeddyurappa, major industries minister Murugesh Nirani and energy minister

Shobha Karandlaje and Toyota Kirloskar vice-chairman Hiroshi Nagasaka (left to right sitting) with various industry body reprenstatives in the city.

CITYFriday, July 15, 2011 3CITY EVENTSGeneralBishop Cotton Boys’ School:Prize distribution ceremony,Margaret Mc Cann of St Ed-mund’s College UK to partici-pate, Boys’ School 4.30 pm.

Sunlux Technologies Limited:Inauguration of its premisesby minister Murugesh Nirani,158, 9th Main, HSR Layout,6th Sector, 5.30 pm.

CulturalDepartment of Kannada andCulture: Sugama Sangeethaby Vimala Srinivasamurthy,Yavanika, Nrupathunga Road,6.30 pm.

Sri Samartha Sadguru ShirdiSaibaba Sharanalaya: Vocalby N R Harini and Sharadasisters, Nagarbhavi Road, 2ndMain, Sanjivini Nagar, Moodal-palya, 6.30 pm.

Karnataka Nataka Academy:Play ‘Kondavararu’ directedby Prathiba Raghuvendra bySpandana Sagara troupe,Ravindra Kalakshetra, J CRoad, 7 pm.

South India Garment Asso-ciation: 16th South India Gar-ment fair, Capitol Hotel, Rajb-havan Road, 11 am.

Bangalore International Cen-tre: Kuchipudi by PrateekshaKashi, Indiranagar SangeethaSabhak Purandara Bhavan,8th Main Road, HAL 2nd Stage,6.30 pm.

Bangalore Lalithakala Paris-hat: Bhavageetha by HusainSaab and party, H N Kalak-shetra, Jayanagar, 6.30 pm.

Rangashree Kala Samastheand Department of Kannadaand Culture: Dayananda Me-morial state-level cultural ran-gotsava, nruthya programmeby G Nandini, presentation ofRangashree award, TusharGirinath, Department of PublicEducation Commissioner andsocial worker K Bagegowda toparticipate, Nayana, J C Road,5.30 pm.

ReligiousSamskara Bharathi: Guruvan-dana to R A Ramamani musi-cian, MLA C N Ashwath-narayan to participate, R PRavishankar Auditorium, SriKanyakaparameshwari templepremises, 8th Cross, Mallesw-aram, 6.30 pm

Sri Shirdi Saibaba Mandir:Gurpoornima celebrations, Ta-lavadya and Ghatam Tarangby ladies artists, 129/A, 13thCross, 6th Main Road, J P Nagar3rd Phase, 6.30 pm.

Srimadananda Theertha Pra-vachana Samithi: Discourseon ‘Skanda Purana’ byChaturvedi VedavyasacharyaSri Raghavendra Swami Mutt,6th Cross, Amarjyothinagar, 7pm.

Sri Shankara Jayanthi Man-dala: Discourse on ‘Bruhad-arnya Upanishad’ by Ra-machandra Sharma Thyagali,Sri Shankara Krupa 45, SriShankara Krupa Road, 16thCross, Jayanagar, 3rd Block,6.30 pm.

Adhyatma Prakasha Karya-laya: Discourse on ‘ChandogyaUpanishad’ by SudarshanSharma, 68, New No.6, APKRoad, 2nd Block, Thyagara-janagar, 8.30 am.

Sri Mahayagakshetra Sri Gay-athri Devasthana Trust: Gay-athri Brahma Rathotsava, 10am; Sahasra Kalashabhishekaand Gayathri Brahmarathot-sava, Temple premises, Yesh-wanthpur Circle, 6 pm.

Kaadu Malleshwara GelayaraBalaga: Sugama sangeetha byNithin Rajaram Shastry, Tem-ple premises 596/2, SampigeRoad, 15th Cross, Malleswaram6.30 pm.

ExhibitionsCultural Connections: Friday,July 15th, 2011. 10 a.m. to 6p.m. Gallerie Third Eye, No A-1 Epsilon Office Block, YemalurMain Road, Yemalur An exhi-bition of contemporary Indianpaintings by Parmesh.

The Art Mix @ Caperberry:Friday, July 15th, 2011. 11 a.m.to 4 p.m. Caperberry, No 48/1Ground Floor, The Estate, Dick-enson Road, Caperberry andArt Chutney present 'The ArtMix', a group show featuringartwork by artists such as HRDas, Nagesh Goud, AmolPawar and others.

Recorder of Life, Beauty andTruth: Friday, July 15th, 2011.10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tasveer, No26/1, Kasturba Cross Road,Tasveer presents an exhibitionof photographs by TS Satyan,one of India's first photojour-nalists.

Tête-à-tête @ Apparao: Friday,July 15th, 2011. 10 a.m. to 8

p.m. Apparao Galleries, No 82The Presidency, St Marks Road,Apparao Galleries presents'Tête-à-tête', an exhibition ofpaintings and sculptures byeleven artists including Altaf,Anjolie Ela Menon, FN Souza,George K, K Muralidhar, LaxmaGoud, Shipra Bhattacharyaand Sunil Padwal.

Cartoon Exhibition: Friday,July 15th, 2011. 11 a.m. to 8p.m. Indian Cartoon Gallery,Midford House, Midford Gar-den, MG Road, An exhibitionof cartoon illustrations byAmerican cartoonist MelvinMathew.

March Of The Elephants @Eka: Friday, July 15th, 2011. 10a.m. to 8 p.m. Eka, No 19, StJohns Road, Eka showcaseselephant forms, ranging fromthe classic and ornate to themodern and abstract.

Solo Show @ Renaissance:Friday, July 15th, 2011. 11 a.m.to 7 p.m. Renaissance Gallerie,No 13 Westminster, Cunning-ham Road, A solo show byartist Apet Pramod Mahadevfrom Pune.

ShoppingCrimson's Annual MonsoonSale: Friday, July 15th, 2011.11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Crimson ArtGallery, The Hatworks Boule-vards, No 32, CunninghamRoad, Vasanthnagar Paintingsat discount rates, along withan additional offer where pa-trons get 50% off every secondpurchase.

Crocs Candy Collection: Fri-day, July 15th, 2011. 11 a.m. to9 p.m. Crocs India Retail Lim-ited, Mantri Square, No 1,Sampige Road, MalleshwaramA collection of lightweight,stylish footwear in bright, can-dy colours.

Celio End of Season Sale: Fri-day, July 15th, 2011. 11 a.m. to9 p.m. Celio, Brigade Road,Discounts up to 70% on allapparel and accessories.

Lifestyle presents Watch Fest:Friday, July 15th, 2011. 10 a.m.to 9 p.m. Lifestyle, AdarshOpus, Campbell Road, AustinTown Offers and discounts ona wide range of watches.

The Big Wrangler Sale: Friday,July 15th, 2011. 10 a.m. to 9p.m. Wrangler, No 777, 100Feet Road, Indiranagar Wran-gler kickstarts its end of seasonsale, with discounts of up to50%.

Pepe Sale: Friday, July 15th,2011. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Pepe,No 2, Brigade Road, Discou-nts of up to 60% on all mer-chandise.

Sale @ Esprit: Friday, July15th, 2011. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.Esprit, No 10 Ananda Bhavan,Vittal Mallya Road, Esprit an-nounces a sale where patronscan avail discounts of up to50% on apparel and acces-sories, and a flat 25% off watch-es.

Lee Sale: Friday, July 15th,2011. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Lee,Royal Meenakshi Mall, NoE1/16, Syndicate Bank Colony,1st Cross, Bennerghatta RoadLee merchandise at discountsof up to 50%.

Reebok Sale: Friday, July 15th,2011. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Reebok,Royal Meenakshi Mall, NoE1/16, Syndicate Bank Colony,1st Cross, Bennerghatta RoadReebok announces a saleacross all its outlets, whereshoppers can get merchandiseat flat 40% off.

3 for 2 offer: Friday, July 15th,2011. 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.Landmark, The Forum Mall,No 21, Hosur Road, Koraman-gala Landmark presents the 3for 2 offer, where readers canchoose from a collection ofover 200 best sellers and newreleases and get three bookswith the offer sticker for theprice for two.

Sale @ French Connection:Friday, July 15th, 2011. 10 a.m.to 9 p.m. French Connection,Adarsh Opus, Campbell Road,Austin Town Men get a flat30% off, while women are en-titled to discounts up to 50%on all merchandise at FrenchConnection’s end of seasonsale across all outlets.

Van Heusen Sale: Friday, July15th, 2011. 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.Van Heusen, No 194, BrigadeRoad, Discounts of up to 40%on all apparel. The sale is onacross all outlets.

TheatreMimmi and Brumm are Hav-ing a Party: July 15th, 2011.7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. RangaShankara, No 36/1 2nd Phase,8th Cross, JP Nagar MargritGysin, the Grande Dame ofSwiss puppeteers, tells andperforms a story based on thepicture book by Gabrielle Vin-cent. The story follows the ad-ventures of a mouse.

SHIVAJINAGAR OPHROAD IN A MESSBBMP contractor botches up drain

works; engineer says notices served


Bangalore: The street vendors,shop keepers and residentsaround Old Poor House (OPH)road are being taken for a rideby their elected representativesand Bruhat Bangalore Mahana-gara Palike officials.

Here is a reality check byBangalore Beat.

Open drains with accumu-lated drainage, sewage watergushing from all sides, mos-quitoes breeding over it posinga serious health threat and theterrible stench emanating iswhat the people on this roadare experiencing.

And when it rains, it is purehell with water gushing intoshops and houses.

Around 100-150 street ven-dors were vacated from OPHRoad in January this year witha promise that they would begiven new shops in the samearea after concrete slabs werelaid on the drainage pipes.

But nothing has happenedsince then.

The works with a cost of Rs9 crore were supposed to startin February this year.

But there is no sign of anydevelopment in the project oflaying drain pipes and buildingconcrete bed on it facilitatingthe vendors to sell their goodson it as they were doing earlier.

“We vacated our shops onlybecause we were promised newplaces on the concrete bed afterthe completion of the project.But what has happened now? Isee hardly any labourer workingon the project. There is hardlyanyone walking on this stretchas the stench is unbearable,”said a vendor.

When Bangalore Beat spoketo chief engineer Sriprakash,he said, “As per the work order,the project was started on Feb-ruary 28 and was scheduled toend on August 27. The contractwhich was given to Hyderabad-

based Sri Sairam Constructionshas sublet it to another contractor”.

“They are just killing timewithout taking any measuresto complete it and we have al-ready issued three notices. Thecoming week we will issue a fi-nal notice and cancel the tender.Further measures will be taken after seeking the ordersfrom BBMP Commissioner. EvenI have personally witnessed thedifficulties faced by the resi-dents due to the stagnant drainwater. We will ensure that thework continues by makingarrangements for the free flowof drainage water” Sriprakashsaid.

Bharatinagar corportor (wardnumber 91) Shakil Ahmed said,“We are also laying the drainpipes from Russel market. Weare facing problems near OPHRoad as the drain is flowing allthe time. It becomes really dif-ficult when it rains. Since it isa busy road, the police haveasked the contractor to carryout the works only in the night.He works from 10.30 pm till 6am. Hopefully the works shouldbe completed within a month.”

He said, “Some shop ownersare still selling their ware onthis road, though we have giventhem notices to vacate the areaso that we can carry out theworks. The pipelines in the areaare very old and we are laying9 inch pipes here. I agree thatthere has been a delay, but thatis due to various factors.”

A vendor, Syed Javed, said,“It has been more than sixmonths since the project hasbeen going on here. The BBMPshould take steps to finish itoff at least now.

“At the time of starting theproject, they had promised thatit would be completed beforethe monsoon sets in. We arealready well into the rainy sea-son, but there does not seemto be any end to this.”

The half-finished work on OPH road. The choked drains force residents to wade through sewage water whenever it rains.

Photos: Gangadhar Pujar

Girl tries to flee rescue centre, falls off wall


Bangalore: It was a story of lifefrom hell to hell for this girl,who wanted to escape from theclutches of a government-run in-stitution. But it was not to be.

Manjula (22), who was workingas a housemaid at a doctor’shouse in Hebbal, was rescuedand lodged at the governmentchildren’s hostel on Hosur road.But the condition at the hostelwas pathetic enough for her toflee.

She hatched a plan along withher friend, fellow inmate andanother rescued house maidMonica (16) to escape from thefacility by jumping over the com-pound wall.

On Tuesday, the two wantedto climb onto the second floorledge, leap onto the compound

wall and then escape to freedom.But as they approached the wall,Monica got cold feet and refusedto move.

Manjula who was holding herhand tried her jump, but fell be-tween the ledge and the com-pound wall.

She started crying in pain andwas immediately rushed to a pri-vate hospital by the Siddapurapolice.

Luckily for her, she had es-caped with minor injuries, thedoctors who attended on hersaid. She was later dischargedwith minor treatment.

Manjula complained to thedoctors that she and Monicawanted to escape as the food atthe hostel was pathetic, they were deprived of blanketsin the cold season and werebeing scolded by the hostel au-thorities.

Manjula (20) who fell from the compound wall of the childrescue centre on Hosur road. She was trying to flee from the

facility when the incident occurred.

Manjunath Shrama

Foreign studentfound semi‑nude

at Rajakatte


Bangalore: A student fromabroad who is studying at a citycollege was found in a semi-naked state at PadmanabhanagarRajkatte area on Sunday.

The passersby and a socialworker, Ganesh, shifted her toVictoria Hospital for treatment.The doctors found out that thevictim, Suraya (26), was not inher senses and treated her.

Medical investigations re-vealed that she had been ad-dicted to drugs.

When questioned, Suraya al-leged that she had gone to aparty at a friend’s house and

she was given juice laced withsome drug that made her fallasleep immediately.

And the next thing she knewwas that she was in the hospital.

The doctors said that she wasincoherent and only one of thephone numbers that she gaveworked. It was that of her cousinin Uganda. When they contactedthat person, she said her cousinwas studying at a private collegenear Yelahanka.

She gave the details of herresidential address and otherdetails.

Victoria Hospital doctors shift-ed her to Nimhans for psychiatrictreatment and de-addiction pro-cedures yesterday.

Suraya (26), a student from Uganda studying at a private college in Yelahanka, was found in a semi-naked state at Rajakatte area in Padmanabhanagar on Sunday. She was

later shifted to Victoria Hospial, where the doctors found outthat she was addicted to drugs and transferred her to

Nimhans yesterday for psychiatric treatment and de-addiction procedures.

Vatal, supporters hold blackflag protest at Raj BhavanBangalore Beat Bureau

Bangalore: Vatal Nagaraj of Kan-nada Vatal Paksha and hundredsof his supporters today held ablack flag protest in front of RajaBhavan against the UPA gov-ernment at the Centre for notpreventing terrorist attacks.

The protesters said that thelatest attacks on Mumbai areproof that the country lacked insecurity. “Since governor H RBhardwaj is the representativeof the President in the state, weare protesting here asking himto convey our concerns to Unionhome minister P Chidambaramand President Pratibha Patil,”said Vatal Nagaraj.

He said the central leadersshould take a decision on pro-

viding better security to the coun-try’s people.

“We should have learnt ourlessons from previous attacks,but obviously we have not. Thecentral government should havedone a lot more to prevent suchattacks. At least now the vigil inthe country should be steppedup,” he added. “Best securitymeasures could have been linedup. Mumbai has been a frequenttarget of terrorists, and the Con-gress government could have learnt lessons from previous at-tacks and could have done muchin keeping vigil.

“Our black flag protest in frontof Raj Bhavan is only to ask andmake governor take note of theresponsibilities of the centralgovernment,” he said.

Manjunath Shrama

Vatal Nagaraj of Kannada Vatal Paksha and his supportersprotest in front of Raj Bhavan today.

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FBI inquiry into News Corp 9/11 tap claim

Washington: America’s FBI has started in-quiry into allegations that media mogul Ru-pert Murdoch’s News Corp. tried to hackinto the phones of 9/11 terror attack victims,media reports have said.

FBI’s decision to investigate came afterits Director Robert Mueller received manyrequest in this regard from several lawmak-ers. The FBI routinely makes preliminaryinquiries into issues raised by lawmakersto determine whether a full-blown investi-gation is needed.

“The (US) law says that any US corporationthat bribes a foreign official is subject to se-vere penalties, not only fines but even crim-inal penalties. We want to make sure thatthis company, with all of its influence andthe information that it passes to our region,isn’t doing that,” said New Jersey SenatorFrank Lautenberg, who was among the firstto demand an investigation.

“They’d be doing the same thing hereand filtering out the news that they want tohear or that they want to steal, in this case,and use it. And we don’t want that to hap-pen,” Lautenberg told the CNN, referring tothe phone-hacking scandal in Britain wherethe News of the World had hacked into thephone of a teenage murder victim in 2002.

Justice department spokeswoman LauraSweeney said that it has received lettersfrom several members of Congress regardingallegations related to News Corp, the US

Company held by Murdoch. “We are reviewing those,” the spokes-

woman said without providing any furtherdetail. The suggestion that September 11,2001 victims also may have been were tar-geted surfaced in the Mirror, a British rivalof News Corp.’s The Sun.

Referring to the developments in Britainwhere Murdoch is expected to appear beforethe British parliament, Lautenberg said hewould be watching this event with interest.

“Right now I’m not calling on our com-mittee to bring in Rupert Murdoch. What Iwant to do is get to the truth of the matter.When we find that out from the Justice De-partment’s review, then we’ll make decisionsabout whether or not it’s necessary to bring

Murdoch in or other senior people in hisoperation,” he said.

Democratic Congressman Bruce Braleyof Iowa asked the chairman of the HouseOversight and Government Reform Com-mittee to get involved in this case.

“Our committee has a jurisdiction to lookinto these very troubling allegations againstNews Corp and find out whether any federallaws were violated, such as the ForeignCorrupt Practices Act, which prohibits UScompanies from bribing foreign officials orother types of criminal violations,” he said.

“One of the reasons this is so importantis because Congress has important oversightresponsibilities to make sure that these lawsare being followed,” Braley told the CNN.

“It appears that News Corp is getting intothe field of political espionage or personalespionage, and that’s one thing that weneed to be very concerned about,” he alleged.The Los Angeles Times reported that theUS officials said the FBI is trying to determineif a full investigation is warranted, and noevidence has yet emerged to confirm thatNews Corp. employees sought to hack phonesin the US. “The FBI probe also raises thepolitically delicate possibility that the Obamaadministration – which has questioned theobjectivity of News Corp.’s Fox News –could bring criminal charges against em-ployees of the network’s parent company,”The Washington Post said.

Canara Bank brings ITtraining to Berhampore

Bangalore: Canara BankInstitute of InformationTechnology was inaugu-rated at Berhampore onWednesday.

Canara Bank executivedirector Archana S Bhar-gava dedicated the institute tothe people of Murshidabad, WestBengal.

Inaugurating the institute,Berhampore MP Adhir RanjanChowdhury said it is a muchneeded gift to the people of Mur-shidabad, which has very lessopportunities for youth to hone

their skills to compete in the jobmarket.

Archana Bhargava said,“Though India has seen growthin the IT industry. Though a verygood demand has been created,it is restricted to metropolitanareas and has not extended totier 2 and 3 cities. The institute

was started to fulfill thisneed. The institute ex-clusively caters to thetraining needs of the ITsector. The bank’s insti-tutes have trained morethan 3,85,000 youth in

the country.”Besides the training, training

material and entire infrastruc-tural cost is born by the Bank.Trainees are provided with freeboarding facilities. The traineesare also assisted in getting a suit-able placement or helped in es-tablishing their own ventures.

Top officials transferred in TN

Chennai: The Tamil Nadu gov-ernment today effected a minorreshuffle of IAS officials, trans-ferring Erode Collector Dr RAnandakumar, who was in thenews recently for admitting hischild in a government-run school,and another officer.

K Sellamuthu IAS, commis-sioner of fisheries and MD, TamilNadu Fisheries Development Cor-poration Ltd has been transferredand posted as Commissioner ofHorticulture and Plantation Cropsin the place of Dr B Chandramo-

han.“The orders regarding postings

to Dr Chandramohan and DrAnandakumar will be issuedseperately,” chief secretaryDebendranath Sarangi said in arelease, adding, C Kamaraj,deputy secretary in the transportdepartment will be the new Erodecollector.

Anandakumar had been inthe limelight recently for admitting his daughter in a Panchayat Union Primary schoolat Erode. PTI

PSLV carrying GSAT all set for blast‑off

Continued from page 1ISRO will be using its third PSLVrocket variant - PSLV-XL - withlonger strap-on motors with high-er fuel capacity.

The other two rocket variantsare the PSLV standard versionwith 11.3 metres six strap-on mo-tors and the PSLV Core Alone(CA) rocket without the six strap-on motors. The rocket to belaunched Friday evening willhave 13.5 metres long strap-onmotors to carry 12 tonnes of solidfuel than the normal strap-onmotors measuring 11.3 metreswith nine-tonne fuel capacity.

This will be the second timeISRO will be launching a rocketwith this specification. The earlierone was for the Chandrayaanmoon mission.

This will also be only the sec-ond time that ISRO will be usinga PSLV rocket for launching asatellite to be finally placed ingeostationary orbit. The first wasKalpana-1 satellite (originallynamed as Metsat), a meteoro-logical satellite launched in 2002.

The GSAT-12 satellite will beco-located with Inst-2E and In-sat-4A satellites and will have alife of eight years. IANS

CM: No Posco plantin Gadag at any cost

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Letter given to seerGadag: The additional deputycommissioner of Gadag todayhanded over a letter by the stategovernment on its decision towithdraw land acquisition forPosco steel plant in Gadag districtto Siddalinga Swamiji of Ton-tadharya math. Officer RudreGowda met the seer and handedover the letter denying permis-

sion to the steel major. Chief minister B S Yedyurappa

had stated that the governmenthas withdrawn its permissionfor the project. But farmers andreligious leaders asked the gov-ernment to give the decision inwriting otherwise they wouldcontinue with the protest.

The chief minister today di-rected the deputy commissionerto give the order in writing whichwas delivered by the additionaldeputy commissioner.

SC raps Delhi police for callousprobe in cash‑for‑vote scam

New Delhi: The “callous” ap-proach of Delhi Police in probingthe 2008 ‘cash-for-vote scam’came under severe criticism to-day from the Supreme Courtwhich asked it why no custodialinterrogation has been conductedin the case so far.

“We are not happy at all withprobe done by the Delhi Police.This is not the way to prove theoffence of such serious nature,”a bench headed by Justice AftabAlam said.

Expressing dissatisfaction overthe probe, the bench said noprogress has been made by thepolice in more than two years.

“No substantial progress hasbeen made in two years. We arereally concerned. Investigationmust move fast and it must bebrought to its logical conclusion,”

it said.The court was hearing a peti-

tion filed by former Chief ElectionCommissioner J M Lyngdoh seek-ing its directions to the govern-ment to take action against politi-cians involved in the scam whichrelates the trust vote faced bythe UPA government in July 2008.

As soon as the matter cameup for hearing, the bench ex-pressed surprise over the con-tents of the status report filedby the Delhi police in the case.

“This is not investigation. Youare telling a story to the courton the basis of statement madeby some people.

There is no inference drawnup by you,” the bench said, ask-ing the police why no custodialinterrogation has been done sofar in the case.

The court expressed concern,saying “Investigation has beendone with callousness on thecomplaint filed by Lok SabhaSecretary.”

The court asked the police tofile a fresh status report withintwo weeks.

Lyngdoh had alleged in thepetition that though the entirenation was shocked by the spec-tacle of three BJP MPs displayingwads of currency notes in Par-liament as bribe money to votein favour of the UPA during the2008 trust vote, no action hasso far been taken against thoseguilty.

According to the petition,though the incident had occurredon July 22, 2008, neither theDelhi Police Crime Branch whichregistered an FIR nor the chair-

man of the Joint ParliamentaryCommittee had so far taken anytangible step.

Lyngdoh, in his petition, hasurged the apex court to directthe government to set up an in-dependent SIT to probe the al-legations in a speedy manner.

On July 22, 2008, three BJPmembers had placed one crorerupee cash in Lok Sabha allegingthey were given to them by floormanagers of the UPA governmentto secure their support duringthe no-confidence motion afterLeft parties withdrew their sup-port over the Indo-US nucleardeal.

The allegation was levelledby BJP MPs Ashok Argal, FagganSingh Kulaste and MahavirBhagora. PTI

Students take part in the COMED-K counselling at NMKRV college today. The counsellingfor medical and dental seats up to 1,500 CET ranks were scheduled to be held today and

tomorrow.

Comed‑k counselling beginsS Radhakrishna

Members of the student wing of the Samatha Sainika Dala protest against compulsoryteaching of Bhagwad Gita in schools. The protest was held at SBM circle in the city today.

ʻNo need for Gitaʼ

Members of the BJP Yuva Morcha protest against the terrorist attacks in Mumbai, at SBMCircle in the city today.

Protest against attackGangadhar Pujar

Gangadhar Pujar

Director Robert Mueller

Nitish asksPM to grantSpl Status

to BiharPatna: Bihar chief minister NitishKumar today asked Prime Min-ister Manmohan Singh to con-cede the demand for accordingspecial state status to Bihar tohelp ensure all-round growth ofthe state.

“We know if the Prime Ministerand the Centre desire, the peo-ple’s long-cherished dream fora special state category to Biharwill be fulfilled... the PM shouldconcede the demand”, Kumartold reporters. “If Bihar develops,the country too will develop”.

He thanked the Prime Ministerfor assuring a JD(U) delegationof discussing the demand forgiving special state status to Bihar during the National Development Council (NDC)meeting. PTI

US ready to help India in probeWashington: The United Stateshas offered assistance to Indiain the investigations of the July13 Mumbai blasts that left 18people dead and over 100 in-jured. Washington stands readyto help India in its investigationsof the Mumbai terrorist attack,the White House said yesterday,a day after multiple blasts rockedIndia’s financial capital.

“Obviously, the Indian gov-ernment is investigating that(Mumbai attack).

And we have offered to assistin any way we can. But I don’thave any information regardingwho might be responsible (forthe bomb blasts),” White HousePress Secretary Jay Carney toldreporters.

At another news conference,

State Department spokesmanMark Toner said the Indian gov-ernment is conducting its owninvestigation on this terrorist at-tack.

“We’ll wait and see how thatdevelops,” he said when askedif the United States has any in-dication of possible Pakistaniinvolvement or support for theMumbai bombings.

Secretary of State Hillary Clin-ton travels to India next weekfor the second India-US StrategicDialogue.

Counter-terrorism, he said,would be one of the main focusof the talks which is now takingplace in the immediate aftermathof the Mumbai blast.

“She continues with her plansto visit India next week. But you

know, certainly, counter-terror-ism is always an issue on thetable when we talk to India. Butit’s conceivable that given yes-terday’s attacks, that it’s goingto perhaps be more at the fore-front.

But we enjoy good counter-terrorism cooperation with In-dia,” Toner said. PTI

I could not contactpolice chief for 15minutes: ChavanMumbai: Maharashtra chief min-ister Prithviraj Chavan said Fri-day that he could not reach toppolice officers for almost 15 min-utes after the triple bombings.Mobile communication collapsed

within minutes of the terrorstrikes Wednesday evening, thechief minister said.

“I could not contact chief ofpolice, DGP for 15 minutes. Thatis very serious,” Chavan toldNDTV in an interview.

He said lacunae needed to beplugged and the governmentwas thinking of having satellitephones or dedicated mobile net-work. Chavan also disclosed that12 task groups have been formedto probe the terror attack thatkilled 17 people and injured 131.

The chief minister said thepossibility of the involvementof the underworld and Left-wingextremists was also being lookedat. Hinting at the Bharatiya Jana-ta Party (BJP), he said: “I wasvery upset that one of the political

parties tried to politicise theissue. They have a right to criticse but there is a time and aplace.” PTI

India praised for notpointing finger at PakToronto: Praising New Delhi forexercising caution in not pointinga finger at Islamabad for theMumbai bombings, the Canadianmedia Thursday said India re-alises that Pakistan is alreadyso unstable that any confronta-tion could push it over the brink.

India’s politicians are “un-characteristically exercising re-straint and refusing to speculateover who was behind the fourthmajor terrorist attack on Mumbaiin eight years”, wrote the daily.

Osamaplanned 9/11anniversary

attack: reportWashington: Slain al-Qaedachief Osama bin Laden and hisoperations head were plottingto attack the US on the occasionof the 10th anniversary of the9/11 strikes, a media report hassaid.

Bin Laden was shot dead byUS commandos during a surpriseraid at his safe house in Pak-istan’s garrison town of Abbot-tabad where he lived for the lastfive years. “Bin Laden and hisoperations chief Attiyah Abd al-Rahman swapped views aboutthe composition of the attackteam, with bin Laden repeatedlyrejecting names that Rahmansuggested,” the Wall Street Jour-nal reported quoting officials fa-miliar with the intelligence takenfrom bin Laden’s house.

It said the plan, according toUS officials, were only in the dis-cussion phase. According to theJournal, in the days followingthe US raid, American officialssaid the materials seized fromthe compound showed enthusi-asm for carrying out attacks ondates of symbolic significance,prompting them to worry aboutJuly 4 and September 11. But of-ficials didn’t disclose at that timethat there had been specific plan-ning for another attack.

Euro zone leaders postponeGreece bail‑out meet

Berlin: Euro zone leaders havepostponed an emergency summitplanned for this weekend on asecond bail-out of debt-ladenGreece in the hopes that a muchbigger crisis unfolding in the USwill preoccupy financial marketsand give them more time to sortout their differences on the pro-posal.

A summit of the 17-nation eurogroup was proposed by EuropeanCouncil president Herman vanRompuy in Brussels to preventlarger euro zone economies suchas Italy and Spain from beingsucked into the crisis by demon-strating their determination tohelp keep Greece from defaultingon its debts. However, the dif-ferences over involving the pri-vate sector in the proposed sec-

ond bailout package of up to 120billion euros were so great thatthey decided to delay their meet-ing until next week.

The euro zone’s largest econ-omy, Germany, which has beenpressing for involvement of theprivate sector to share the costsof a future financial rescue ofGreece, saw no urgency in con-vening a summit of the heads ofstate and government as longas they are not in a position totake a decision.

If they continued to squabbleover the terms of a second fi-nancial rescue of Greece a yearafter it received a bailout of 110billion euros (159 billion dollars),they will be sending a wrongsignal to financial markets, Ger-many argued. A prerequisite for

an emergency summit is that“we can agree on a complete,new programme for Greece”,Chancellor Angela Merkel saidon Thursday in Nigeria, whereshe concluded a three-nationAfrican tour.

Some of Germany’s partnersas well as the European CentralBank have been opposing anysolution that will be seen by fi-nancial markets as a partial de-fault by Greece.

Italy and Spain have beendemanding speedy action bytheir euro zone partners on anew rescue package for Greecebecause they are already beingtargeted by speculators as thenext candidates for a bail-outafter Greece, Ireland and Portu-gal.

2G: BJP demands probeinto PCʼs role, meets CBI chief

New Delhi: In an unusual move,CBI director A P Singh today hada meeting with a BJP delegationwhich demanded a probe intoalleged role of the then financeminister P Chidambaram in the2G scam.

It is not a normal practice thatthe CBI Director meets membersof political parties but today hegave time to the five-memberdelegation led by party MPPrakash Javdekar.

Javdekar, accompanied withfellow MPs Maya Singh, Shiv-akumar Udasi and BJP officebearers Bhupendra Yadav andJagat Prasad Nadda, presentedto him records received through

RTI replies and other evidenceswhich allegedly indicate thatChidambaram had sanctionedthe policy for sale of spectrum.

The delegation also demandedthat the CBI should quantify theentire loss caused through thetelecom spectrum allocationscam which CAG has put to beat around Rs 1.76 lakh crore.

“A Raja, the then Telcommu-nications Minister, is in jail andhas been formally chargesheetedfor conspiracy behind the lootand corruption of thousands ofcrore in the award of 2G licenceand allocation of precious spec-trum. “However, it seems sur-prising that the CBI for reasons

unknown has not investigatedthe role of P Chidambaram whowas the then Finance Minister,”the delegation said in its repre-sentation.

When asked whether they willapproach the Supreme Court,Javdekar told reporters that theywill see the action taken by theCBI on their representation andthen take a call on future courseof action. The BJP said the Cabinet, in 2003, had decidedthat Finance Ministry and Tele-com Ministry “would settle” pric-ing and allocation of spectrumand both the ministries are“equally responsible” for any de-cision taken. PTI

Beyond BeatFriday, July 15, 2011


It is an ideal setting for vintage mo-torcycles that have found a cozy andcaring home for themselves. A stonebuilding on No. 15, Wheeler Road,Frazer Town houses Legends Motor-

cycling Café and Museum. The uniquecafé cum museum would open tomorrow.

Ponytailed hardcore biker S K Prabhuemerged out of the museum to greet us intohis unique offering to Bangaloreans. Prab-hu, who has travelled the length andbreadth of the country, has a passion formotorbikes that is evident once you enterthe premises that were still being done upfor the final day.

“I always had a feeling that I was bornto ride bikes. I have visited several palcesabroad and have realised that ours is theonly country that does not have enough museums for vintage bikes. That iswhen I was stumbled upon the idea ofopening one with a café built around it,”said Prabhu.

Prabhu has 25 rare vintage bikes. Whatis surprising is that most of these bikes stillflaunt their original colour and are in ab-solute running condition.

“I have travelled all around the countryon my motorbikes. I had this habit of col-lecting something memorable from eachplace. In my own quirky way, I started col-lecting motorbikes. I started lining them upone by one at my home. Then I was struckupon an idea to open a café along with amuseum,” he added.

Visitors here can savour their occiden-tal delicacies and drool over the magnifi-cent motorbikes. As expected, the place isloaded with books and magazines on mo-torbikes and biking.

The museum has 1924 BSA 250cc, 1928BSA 500cc, 1960 Innocenti, 1960 Fantab-ulous Scooter 125 cc, 1960 Florettee 60cc,Jawa Colt, 1962 Czeta and Military bikes like1942 BSA 500 cc, 1942 Norton 500cc, 1942Matchless 350cc etc. That is not all… Prab-hu offers to load his café with many morebikes in the future.

For his next biking expedition, he plansto take his 1928 BSA. You could see that thismotorbike has a hoary tradition.

But what you may not expect is the factthat the headlight of this motorbike has tobe lit with a matchstick as it emits light byburning carbide.

Prabhu has ensured that you will haveyour biking experience to the brim. One ex-ample is: The door handles are, in fact, mo-torbike handles. Not just bikes, the entirecafé is a treasure trove of vintage artefacts.Wooden blade fans, the wall clock, the re-frigerator and weighing and toasting ma-chines transport back you in time.

The antique LP turntable would playonly jazz. The museum too has a huge col-lection of ashtrays which were picked byPrabhu during his journey to various coun-tries. The wall of the museum is filledwith charcoal prints and Jawa calendars.There are oil tins, monograms, biscuitand chocolate tins and other tidbits taste-fully strewn all over the café.

“I have plans of serving wine inside themuseum. I would love a setting where allbike lovers would sit, sip wine and sharetheir biking experiences. There is no suchbike club exclusively for bike lovers in thecity. I am sure that bike lovers will find like-minded people here,” he says.

The café will be open from 6 am to11.30 pm, serving scrambled eggs, cheeseomelet, Danish open, mutton biryani,chicken biryani, prawn biryani, seer fish,cakes and ice creams, he adds.

The museum will officially be inaugu-rated tomorrow and will be open for pub-lic from Sunday.

Out‑of‑body experiences

linked to brain glitch

London: Out-of-body experiences are often linkedto mental or physical illness. Now, a new study hasfound that such events are nothing more than vividhallucinations – and some of us are predisposedto them.

Researchers at the University of Birminghamfound that such out-of-body experiences (OBEs)occur when “instabilities in the brain” causepeople to become disorientated and lose all senseof where their body is.

Far from being “funky, hippie, spiritual” events,they are “real neurophysiological occurrences”,they said.

Their study claimed that people with irregu-larities in the temporal lobes – which control mem-ory and object recognition – are much more like-ly to “transform their own body position”, the Dai-ly Mail reported.

Dr Jason Braithwaite, who led the latest study,said: “We studied 65 psychology students and wefound OBEs had biases in body distortion andtransformation.”

Volunteers who frequently experienced “dejavu”, felt a limb did not belong to them or some-times felt their body move while they were stillmuch more likely to feel out of body experi-ences. Previous research has also pointed topractical causes.

In April, Kevin Nelson, Professor of Neurologyat the University of Kentucky, argued that the con-dition could be attributed to disturbed dreams.

He found that those who had OBEs were moreprone to suffering rapid eye movement (REM) in-trusion, where people become paralysed beforethey are fully asleep.

The new study is published in this month’s is-sue of Elsevier’s Cortex journal. PTI

Molasses extract helps in

reducing obesitySydney: Supplementing your diet with a molassesextract could help you shed weight or reduce obe-sity, say researchers

The study, conducted on mice by RichardWeisinger at the La Trobe University, Australia, in-vestigated the impact of adding molasses extractto a high fat diet.

Mice were given either an unaltered high fat diet,or the same diet supplemented with two percentor four percent molasses extract, according to astatement by the university.

After 12 weeks on these diets, mice that con-sumed the diet containing four percent molassesextract had lower body weight, reduced body fat,and decreased blood levels of leptin, a hormoneproduced by fat cells.

“The addition of molasses extract to a high fatdiet appears to reduce body weight and body fatlevels primarily through reduced caloric absorp-tion,” said Weisinger.

“Clinical trials scheduled next year will providethe opportunity to evaluate the efficacy of molassesextract for weight control in humans,” he added.

Molasses extract is rich in polyphenols, agroup of chemical compounds found in plants thatare known for their antioxidant properties, believedto play a role in the prevention of cancer, coronaryheart disease and even altitude sickness.

These findings will be presented at the annu-al meeting of the Society for the Study of IngestiveBehavior (SSIB) which started Tuesday at Florida,US. IANS

BIKERS, YOUʼVE REACHED DESTINATION

If you are a biker, you would have reached your destination here. The Legends Motor‑cycling Café and Museum that is opening on Sunday in Frazer Town is full of vintage

motorbikes and other biking related tidbits, says Aknisree Karthik

Bike buff S K Prabhu sits on a CZeta at his Legends Motorcycling Café and Museum in Frazer Town. The cafe will be inaururated tomorrow, but will be thrownopen to public on Sunday.

Photos: Gangadhar Pujar

NEWS & FEATURESFriday, July 15, 2011 6

Elena Gagarina, director of the Kremlin Museums in Moscow, and

daughter of Yuri Gagarin, the first manin space, poses in front of a newly-un-veiled statue of her father, outside theheadquarters of the British Council, incentral London, yesterday. A gift from

the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) to the British Council, the

statue shows Gagarin standing on aglobe in his space suit, and it will be

installed at this location for a period of12 months to mark the 50th

anniversary of the first manned spaceflight.

AP-PTI

world briefs

China releasesreport on

human rightsBeijing: China yesterday released a reportthat said the country has fulfilled all targetsof its national human rights action plan.

“All targets and tasks set by the NationalHuman Rights Action Plan of China (2009-2010) have been fulfilled as scheduled,”Xinhua reported citing the report releasedby the state council information office.

The report said all the goals were achievedin due time by the end of 2010.

The state council office published theaction plan in April 2009 - China’s first onthe theme of human rights.

Various governmental, legislative andjudiciary organs, as well as social groupsand non-governmental organisations as-sessed the implementation of the actionplan. The government adjusted the eco-nomic structure and maintained economicgrowth with improving people’s livelihood,and took prompt measures “with an in-vestment of over four trillion yuan (around$615 billion)”, said the report.

It also accelerated infrastructure con-struction, and sped up ecological and en-vironmental construction, and raised citi-zens’ incomes, especially that of low-incomegroups. With the government’s efforts inhuman rights education and publicity, thepublic’s awareness of human rights hasbeen greatly enhanced over the past twoyears, according to the report.

The report, however, admitted that thecause of human rights in China was stillfacing many challenges. IANS

South Sudanbecomes 193rd

UN memberUnited Nations: The UN General Assemblyyesterday unanimously approved a reso-lution admitting the newly independentRepublic of South Sudan as its 193rd mem-ber, Xinhua reported.

The African country declared independ-ence July 9 after a January 2011 referendumheld under the terms of the 2005 Compre-hensive Peace Agreement that ended thedecades-long civil war between the Northand the South.

The UN Security Council had earlier rec-ommended to the General Assembly thatSouth Sudan be added to the UN.

The top UN body’s decision was containedin a resolution that it adopted without avote following an application for member-ship submitted by the president of SouthSudan.

The 15-member Security Council noted“with great satisfaction” South Sudan’ssolemn commitment to uphold the purposesand principles of the UN Charter and tofulfil all the obligations contained therein.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon hassaid that “like any newborn”, South Sudan,which on the day of its birth ranked at thebottom of almost all human developmentindicators, needs help. IANS

Russia to slashUS adoption

agenciesMoscow: The number of US adoption agen-cies operating in Russia will be slashedunder new guidelines agreed between thetwo countries, Russia’s children rights om-budsman has said.

Pavel Astakhov said the current numberof 67 agencies will drop threefold.

Under the accord signed by Russian For-eign Minister Sergey Lavrov and US Secretaryof State Hillary Clinton in WashingtonThursday, adoption agencies will have tobe approved by Moscow, and will also berequired to provide more information abouta child’s background to prospective par-ents.

There was an outrage in 2010 when anadoptive US mother sent a seven-year-oldRussian boy back to Moscow unaccompa-nied, carrying a note that said she did notwant him as he was “psychotic”.

Russian authorities say at least 17 adoptedRussian children have died in their adoptiveUS families since the early 1990s. IANS

Men more likely to die from cancerWashington: Men are more likelythan women to die from cancer be-cause of higher initial risk and laterdetection, a US study has claimed.

The National Cancer Institute (NCI)study, which looked at a database of36 types of cancer from 1977 to 2006,found that the highest male-to-femaledeath rate ratios were 5.51 men forevery woman for lip cancer, 5.37 toone for larynx cancer, and 4.47 to onefor cancer of the hypopharynx – atype of throat cancer.

The male-female death rate ratiofor cancer of the oesophagus was be4.08 to 1, and 3.36 to 1 for urinarybladder cancer, according to the studypublished in the journal Cancer Epi-demiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.

“Our research suggests that themain factor driving greater frequencyof cancer deaths in men is the greaterfrequency of cancer diagnosis, rather

than poorer survival once the canceroccurs,” study author Michael Cookwas quoted as saying by online healthjournal WebMD.

If investigators “can identify thecauses of these gender differences incancer incidence, then we can takepreventative actions to reduce thecancer burden in both men andwomen,” he said.

Many cancers with the highest over-all death rates also showed greaterdeath risk for men than women. Themale-female ratios for lung cancer –which is the leading cause of cancerdeaths for both men and women –were 2.31 to one, while the figure was1.42 to one for colorectal cancer, and1.37 to one for pancreatic cancer.

For leukaemia, the male-female ra-tio was 1.75 to one, and for liver andintrahepatic bile duct cancer the ratiowas 2.23 to one.

Only three cancers were found tohave a higher death rate in womenthan men. They included gallbladdercancer, anal cancer and cancer of theperitoneum.

According to Cook, the reason forthe difference in mortality rates is“not clear cut.”

“For many cancer sites, male andfemale incidence rates have changeddisproportionately over time, and thisimplies that the root cause of sex dif-ferences in cancer incidence rates,and by extension cancer mortalityrates, are sex differences in tobaccosmoking and viral infections, anti-oxidative capacity and hormones andmetal toxicity.”

The researchers, however, said thatmore studies are needed to find outthe factors responsible for greaterrates of diagnosis of cancer amongmen. PTI

Dinosaurs mighthave all died in single blow

Washington: Palaeontologistshave found a piece of dinosaurhorn which they say is pointingto a catastrophic end for the“Age of Dinosaurs”, not a gradualone as some experts have sug-gested.

It’s been believed that di-nosaurs were killed when a hugeasteroid smashed into the Earthoff the coast of Mexico some 65million years ago.

Although it is now acceptedthat a cosmic impact took placeat that time, known as the Cre-taceous-Tertiary, or K-T bound-ary, it was unclear if the massextinctions started gradually be-fore the hit due to volcanoes orother factors. The reason behindthis controversy was a 10-feetzone in the earth right belowthe K-T boundary that purport-edly lacked dinosaur fossils.

Some experts have claimedthis gap, seen in the western in-terior of North America, was ev-idence that dinosaurs might havedied off well before any impact.

Now, researchers have found

a fossil in this zone – a dinosaurhorn no more than five inchesbelow the impact layer, makingit the specimen closest to theend of the Age of Dinosaursfound yet.

The 45 cm-long horn, possiblyfrom a triceratops, was found inthe Hell Creek formation in Mon-tana.

Just because “we have onedinosaur in the gap doesn’t nec-essarily falsify the idea that di-nosaurs were gradually decliningin numbers,” said lead researcherTyler Lyson, a vertebrate pale-ontologist at Yale University.

He said: “However, this findindicates that at least some di-nosaurs were doing fine rightup to the K-T boundary.

“We need to do more fieldwork to find more dinosaurswithin the 3-meter gap. I amconfident that with more fieldwork, we will find more di-nosaurs within this interval.”

The new findings were pub-lished in the journal Biology Let-ters. PTI

Poisonous Jatropha actsas natural pain killer

Cape Town: An extract ofthe poisonous shrub Jat-ropha curcas acts as a strongpainkiller and may functionin a different way than mor-phine and other pharma-ceuticals.

Jatropha curcas, alsoknown as the “physic nut”,is a perennial shrub thatgrows to five meters inheight. It is native to CentralAmerica but grows widelyin Africa and Asia.

The plant fruit is com-bined with the stem bark ofCochlospermum planchoniifor treating diabetes and isalso used traditionally as apainkiller, says Omeh Yusufand Ezeja Maxwell of Uni-versity of Agriculture inUmudike, Nigeria.

The plant’s seeds have beenused for making soap, candles,detergents, lubricants and dyesand the seed oil is used in

biodiesel, the International Jour-nal of Biomedical Engineeringand Technology reports.

The researchers extractedwhat they believed to be thephysiologically active compo-

nents of the leaves of Jat-ropha curcas usingmethanol as solvent, accord-ing to Umudike statement.

They compared the effectsof this extract at 100, 200and 400 milligrams per kg(mg/kg) of body mass,against 400 mg/kg of acetyl-salicylic acid (aspirin) instandard lab animal testsfor assessing the strength ofpainkillers.

They found that 100mg/kg was an inadequatedose, however, 200 and 400mg/kg doses produced anal-gesia (relief from pain)com-parable to aspirin, affirmingthe use of the plant for painrelief.

Yusuf and Maxwell are nowcarrying out more work on iso-lating and characterizing the ac-tive ingredient in the extract andin determining the precise modeof action. IANS

Speech gene regulates brain

connectionsMelbourne: A gene which is known for its role in en-abling speech and language also helps regulate thewiring of neurons in the brain, scientists have discov-ered.

The finding, published in the journal PLOS Genetics,could help scientists understand the unusual aspectsof the brain function better, the researchers said.

The study, led by Dr Sonja Vernes and Dr SimonFisher of the University of Oxford in England, foundthat the gene Foxp2 acts as a genetic dimmer switch,turning up or down the amount of protein productmade by nerve cells.

The team analysed brain tissue from mouse embryosand found that Foxp2 modulates several hundredgenes, many of which influence connections betweennerve cells.

They were also able to demonstrate in vivo that theloss of Foxp2 affects certain genes central to brain de-velopment and that the levels of the gene vary in dif-ferent parts of the brain, the ABC news reported.

To further explore the function of Foxp2, the teamstudied cultured nerve cells from embryonic micethat contain a genetic mutation in the gene.

The cells, they found, had fewer and shorter neuritis,spike-like projections that extend from the nerve cell.

The Foxp2 gene codes for a regulatory protein calleda transcription factor. The genetic sequence presentin all animal species, which reflects its importance.

In humans, Foxp2 is implicated in speech and lan-guage disorders; in birds it influences their ability tolearn songs; and in mice it affects learning of movementsequences.

Dr Fisher said: “Studies like this are crucial forbuilding bridges between genes and complex aspectsof brain function.”

Calling it a landmark study, Kirrie Ballard of SydneyUniversity said: “It will assist in understanding, froma behavioural perspective, the potential extent of theaffect of Foxp2 mutations on speech and languagesystems.” PTI

Pentagon unveils cybersecurity strategyWashington: The Pentagon yesterdayunveiled its first cybersecurity strategy,recognizing cyberspace as “an opera-tional domain to organise, train, andequip”, Xinhua reported.

“It is the first DoD (department ofdefence) unified strategy for cyberspaceand officially encapsulates a new wayforward for DoD’s military, intelligenceand business operations,” the Pentagonsaid in a statement. The document, en-titled Department of Defence Strategyfor Operating in Cyberspace (DSOC),was unveiled by deputy secretary ofdefence William J Lynn at the NationalDefence University in Washington. Anunclassified version of the documentwas posted on the Pentagon’s website.

“This (strategy) allows DoD to or-ganize, train, and equip for cyberspaceas we do in air, land, maritime, andspace to support national security in-

terests,” the document says.The blueprint also features a signifi-

cant shift from “passive” to “active” de-fence against potential cyber threats. Itdefines active defence as the Pentagon’s

“synchronized, real-time capability todiscover, detect, analyze, and mitigatethreats and vulnerabilities”.

As part of its active defences, thePentagon would introduce new oper-ating concepts and capabilities on itsnetworks, such as sensors, softwareand signatures to detect and stop mali-cious code before it affects US operations.The long-expected strategy is likely tocause concerns, both within the US andaboard, over possible US attempt tomilitarize cyberspace and gain domi-nance in the new warzone, analystssaid. “Our strategy’s overriding emphasisis on denying the benefit of an attack,”Lynn said. “Far from militarizing cy-berspace, our strategy of securing networks to deny the benefit of an attackwill help dissuade military actors from using cyberspace for hostile pur-poses.” IANS

Hooked on shopping?Blame it on your mom!

London: Hooked on shopping?Blame it on your mom. It’s inthe genes after all, says a re-searcher.

“Human society puts a greatdeal of emphasis on female ap-pearance and this will inevitablyresult in more clothes beingpurchased for girls than boys.

Parents encourage the im-portance of clothes throughleisure activities such as shop-ping and play that involvesdressing up.

“While dads are taking theirsons out for football matches,women are taking their littlegirls shopping and encouragingthem to take an interest in fash-ion,” Dr Karen J Pine of the Uni-versity of Hertfordshire said.

The Professor of Developmen-tal Psychology says that saleslevels indicate that shopping isa behaviour which is learned,so it may be down to women’smothers that they like to shop

so much. Figures have revealedthat clothes for baby girls out-sell those for boys by a fifth.

It emerged that by the age offour, girls have 20 per cent moreclothes than boys of that age,the ‘Daily Mail’ reported.

As mothers buy most of theclothes for their children, this

suggests that they instinctivelyinstill a much greater need forclothes in their daughters froma very young age.

As a result, it’s likely womenare brought up to love shoppingthrough years of intense exposure to fashion and pur-chases. PTI

Japan aims to totallyclean Fukushima

London: The Japanese city ofFukushima, whose nuclear pow-er plant was badly damaged bya magnitude-9 earthquake, hasnow revealed a plan to cleanevery building and road of radi-ation, a British newspaper re-ported.

The local government said theplan to scrub every building androad clean of radioactivity maytake up to 20 years, the DailyTelegraph reported from Tokyo.

“We are drawing up a plan toclean our city and the first phaseof the project will be announcedearly next month,” said AkaneSaito, a spokeswoman for thecity government.

The cost of the two-decadeclean-up operatioon is likely torun into billions of yen.

Authorities are hoping to re-ceive funding from the nationalgovernment and the Tokyo Elec-tric Power Co., the operator of

the crippled nuclear plant.An 18-mile exclusion zone has

been declared around the plant,where emergency teams areworking around the clock tokeep the plant reactors cool andcontain further radioactive leaks.But radioactivity has gone wellbeyond the no-go zone. At least10 children from Fukushima hadurine samples tested for radioac-tivity and came back positive.

“Of course I am worried aboutthe radiation and we have noidea how it will affect us, butI’m not thinking about leavingas this is my home town andthis is my job,” Saito said. “It ismy responsibility to work for thepeople of the city.”

The decontamination planproposes using high-power hosesto wash the exteriors of buildingsand then collect and dispose theradioactive debris and contami-nated water.

Ukrainian women’s rights group Femen, painted in colours of the EuropeanUnion countries, protest against the regular summer switch off of public

utility supply of hot water in central Kiev, Ukraine, yesterday. Women symbolically wash themselves in the city fountain to protest the need for hotwater all year round, and to highlight the need for the hot water utility during

the upcoming EURO 2012 soccer competition.

AP-PTIGetting ʻhotʼ for hot water

US Senate Indiacaucus condemns

Mumbai blastsWashington: Strongly condemn-ing the bomb blasts inMumbai,the 38-member US Sen-ate India Caucus has said that itstands shoulder-to-shoulder withthe Indian people and the gov-ernment as Mumbaikars recoverfrom the senseless act.

“We strongly condemn the re-cent atrocity in Mumbai that de-liberately targeted innocent andpeaceful civilians. Our thoughtsand prayers are with the victimsand their families,” said senatorsMark Warner and John Cornyn,co-chair of the Senate India Cau-cus for the 112th Congress.

“On behalf of the US SenateIndia Caucus, we stand shoul-der-to-shoulder with the Indianpeople and their government asthey recover from this senselessact,” they said.

On Wednesday, three serialblasts in Mumbai claimed 18lives and left over 100 injured.

Warner and Cornyn said theseattacks highlight the growingimportance of US cooperationwith India on security issues,particularly counterterrorism andhomeland security, but also pointto the need to continue theirclose collaboration on commoninterests.

“Our democratic systems areresilient, the enduring friendshipbetween the people of India andthe US is strong, and this im-portant relationship must con-tinue to grow,” they said.

Senate India Caucus is a bi-partisan group created in 2004,which serves as a forum to dis-cuss bilateral issues, strengthenUS-India commercial ties, andadvocate on behalf of the India-American community.

Deeply saddened by the Mum-bai bomb blasts, CongressmanJoe Wilson said there is no placein this world for senseless actsof violence like those experiencedin India.

“The American people standfirmly behind the people of Indiain support of the fight againstglobal terrorism,” he said.

“My heart and prayers go outto the people of India, and thevictims and families devastatedby today’s senseless attacks inMumbai,” said CongressmanAdam Schiff, ranking memberof the technical and tactical sub-committee on intelligence.

“As a close ally and the world’slargest democracy, India will re-cover, and we will work side-by-side with its government tobring those responsible for to-day’s tragedy to justice,” he said.

“My thoughts and prayers arewith those who lost their lovedones in the three deadly attacksin Mumbai today,” said Repub-lican Congressman Ted Poe,member of the house foreign af-fairs committee.

“India is a loyal ally of theUnited States, and they mustknow that we stand with themin the fight against our commonenemy of global terrorism. Theloss of innocent life in the nameof hatred is intolerable and thosewho are responsible for thesemassacres must be found andbrought to justice for their crimesagainst humanity,” he said.

New York Congressman Gre-gory, senior member of houseforeign affairs committee and fi-nancial services committee saidthe bombings in Mumbai, saddenand enrage the civilised world.

Murdochmay shut

down all UKnewspapers

London: Rupert Murdoch is re-portedly considering the optionof dispensing with the News In-ternational, the group that ownshis British newspapers – TheSun, The Times and the SundayTimes, a media report said.

The media mogul discussedthis possibility when he met his“inner circle” on Wednesday, theDaily Express reported.

Sources said Murdoch was“locked in a series of meetings”to specifically consider the op-tion, following the closure of the168-year-old News of the World.

They said Murdoch was con-cerned to protect the reputationof the parent News Corporationfrom further damage after thevalue of its shares went down.

While one said “Murdoch hasthe ruthlessness to amputate thearm that is threatening the restof News Corporation,” anothersaid a sale was now a “live pos-sibility”. Murdoch’s Americannewspaper The Wall Street Jour-nal also reported he was nowexamining selling News Inter-national. “News Corp has infor-mally explored whether therewere any potential buyers for itsUK newspaper unit,” it said. Sell-ing News International couldfetch about £300 million. IANS

Volcanoerupts in Indonesia

Jakarta: An Indonesian volcanospit lava and smoke thousandsof feet into the air last night,sending panicked residents flee-ing down its slopes. There wereno reports of causalities.

The first eruption at MountLokon occurred at 10.46 pm, saidBrian Rulrone, a disaster man-agement agency official. It wasfollowed by a second powerfulblast just after midnight and athird at 1.10 am. Darwis Sitinjak,another disaster official, told ElShinta radio that soldiers andpolice were helping rescuers evac-uate about 500 people who livealong the mountain. PTI

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LIFESTYLE 7Friday, July 15, 2011

Model Amber Rose haspermanently declaredher love for rapper

boyfriend Wiz Khalifa by havinghis name tattooed on her finger.

Rose, who previously ro-manced Kanye West, has beendating Khalifa since last year,

reports contactmusic.com.The 28-year-old shown off the

inking of the word ‘Cam’ on mi-cro-blogging site Twitter, “I wanthis name tatted (sic) on me amillion times. He’s a dream cometrue... He’s my Angel,” she postedalongwith picture.

English glamour modelDanielle Lloyd has giv-en birth to her second

son, 10 weeks before the duedate.

Lloyd, 27, and fianceJamie O’Hara welcomed aboy, this Wednesday.

“Lloyd has delivered ourbaby this morning 4lb 4oz,10 weeks early. Baby anddan are ok just letting thehospital look after him(sic)”Jamie posted on mi-cro-bloggin site Twitter.

The couple already havea son, Archie.

Filmmaker Karan Johar isall set to direct “Student ofThe Year” from Aug 16 andsays he’s more excited thannervous because this is hisfirst movie with newcomers.

“More excited than nervous.This is the first time I’m work-ing with newcomers. I hopeall three of them Siddharth,Varun and Aliya turn out well.I feel they’ve humongous tal-ent. But that could just be aproud parent’s opinion. Nextsummer I hope the audiencediscovers them to be as tal-ented as I did,” he said.

“Aliya being the only girlbetween the two boys is beingfully pampered. In any case,our production house DharmaProductions has a track-recordof pampering heroines. Aliyais getting the full-on Dharmatreatment. Our productionhouse is like a spa for actors,”he added.

Do you feel a sense of trep-idation working with newcom-ers?

“Working with stars thrillsme. This challenges me. Afterthe experimental ‘My NameIs Khan’, making a masalafilm with newcomers poses achallenge of its own,” saidKaran.

KJo excited about makingfilms with newcomers

Iglesias loves Beckhamʼs style

Huntington‑Whiteleybares for newBurberry ad

She is already a name to reckon withdown south, but “Singham” is actressKajal Aggarwal’s first full-fledged Hindi

movie. Comparing Bollywood and the south-ern Indian film industry, the 26-year-old saysboth are equally professional and regionalbarriers are slowly disappearing.

“The reach of Hindi cinema is larger, butthe south is equally professional. In thesouth, they have very talented technicianslike in Bollywood. Both industries have equal-ly good artists, good scripts and good pro-fessionals,” Kajal told IANS in an interview.

“I feel, just like Bollywood, southern filmsare also reaching a lot of places...the moviesare going beyond boundaries. Regional bar-riers are slowly and steadily disappearingwhich is a very good thing,” she added.

“Singham”, a remake of the successful2010 Tamil film by the same name, is sched-uled for a July 22 release.

After the exchange of actors and directorsbetween the two industries, the technicianshave also started looking for work in boththe worlds of cinema, which are very prolific.

“One more very good trend that I havenoticed lately is that a lot of technicians arebeing shared pan-India. A lot of techniciansfrom the south are working in Bollywoodand vice versa. Directors of photography,choreographers, etc - all are working in boththe industries,” she added.

Kajal, who did a cameo role in the 2004Hindi film “Kyun...! Ho Gaya Na”, has featuredin 21 southern movies in four years. She ma-jorly worked in Telugu movies and did acouple of Tamil films as well. Some of herhits are “Chandamama” “Magadheera”, “Dar-ling”, “Brindaavanam” and “Mr. Perfect”.DANIELLE LLOYD

pregnant with 2nd childRegional barriersdisappearing: Kajal

I want to do a raunchyitem number: Sush

Former beauty queen Sushmita Sen,who did item numbers in movies like“Fiza” and Nayak”, wants to get backinto the dancing mode and is keen ondoing a raunchy item number.

Sushmita was last seen in AneesBazmee’s comedy “No Problem” last year.

“I like winning but I don’t like rat racesas I can’t deal with Friday to Friday fluc-tuations. I do a ‘Main Hoon Na’ andpeople think I’ve arrived - with the saris,the glamour. And then I do a ‘Chingari’and people hate it. But I experiment.Now I am taking a break and readingscripts.

“I do want to do an item number, toget back to dancing soon. Want to do areally raunchy item number,” she said inan interview on “The Date Season 2”,which will be aired on Bloomberg UTVSaturady.

During the show, she also reminiscedabout her first big success in 1994 whenshe was crowned Miss Universe and saidthat there were people who didn’t evenknow her name when she won the crown,but they were happy with the fact thatan Indian had won.

“Everything in my life has been a cosmicaccident. I was found at a nightclub andsomebody suggested I go for Miss India.The entire experience (Miss India) openedup my eyes. Around the world peoplecelebrated. They didn’t even know myname, but they knew India had won.That’s when it hit me that I had put Indiaon the map,” said the 35-year-old.

Now a budding entrepreneur, who se-lects model from India to participate inthe Miss Universe pageant through hercompany I Am She - Miss Universe India,Sushmita feels that beauty contests needattention.

British actress Rosie Huntington-Whiteley,who rose to fame as a model after fea-turing in a 2008 ad campaign for Burberry,

has teamed up with the luxury fashion brandonce again. She is endorsing its latest fragrance‘Body’ and features in a sensuous ad.

“It’s a huge honour to be working withBurberry again, a brand that put my career onthe map and helped launch me. To be asked tobe the first ‘Burberry Body’ is an amazing com-pliment,” the 24-year-old, “Transformers: Darkof the Moon” actress said in a statement.

Voted the hottest woman of the year byMaxim magazine recently, Huntington-Whiteleyhas worn only a rose gold satin trench coatand the scent for the latest Burberry campaign.

“Burberry Body is the most exciting launchthat we have ever created and captures theiconic spirit of the brand today in a strikingand sensual way. Rosie’s effortless style andher staggering beauty made her the naturalchoice as the first Burberry Body,” said Christo-pher Bailey, Chief Creative Officer - Burberry.

The brand hopes to create a unique portfolioof ‘Burberry Bodies’ shot by Mario Testino, toiconise the fragrance for future.

The latest fragrance will be launched in over150 countries starting Sep 1.

Spanish singer Enrique Igle-sias says he admires ace foot-baller David Beckham for

his style.“I would personally like to be

someone like David Beckham. Hisstyle is 100 percent. He alwayslooks so good,” he said.

Iglesias is also a fan of actorJohnny Depp’s fashion sense.

“Johnny Depp also has greatstyle and the thing about Johnnyis that he is in his forties and lookslike he’s 30,” okmagazine.comquoted him as saying.

The singer, who has been datingformer tennis star Anna Kourniko-va for almost ten years, claims hehas no sense of the latest trendsand relies on experts to help himdress for video shoots.

“I have a stylist who is great. Iget to pick out the clothes I wearfrom a selection she picks for meon video shoots. I am bad at fash-ion and don’t keep up with trends- I’m known for it among myfriends. I am just a jeans and T-shirt kind of guy,” he added.

Amber Rose getsboyfriend name tattooed

Friday, July 15, 2011 8LIFESTYLE

JESSICA JEALOUS of Bundchenʼs post‑baby body

Ryan Reynolds datingCharlize Theron?

Actor Ryan Reynolds isbelieved to have movedon from his divorce from

actress Scarlett Johansson. Heis reportedly dating CharlizeTheron.

According to sources,Reynolds and Theron “havebeen dating -- for months!They’re exclusive, and it’s veryhush-hush,” reports us-magazine.com.

Although both of themhaven’t been photographed to-gether, a witness noticedReynolds’ motorcycle atTheron’s home all morningJune 5, and then saw the actorexit her house in the after-noon.

Actress Jessica Alba thinks shewill never get her pre-mummybody back unlike model Gisele

Bundchen.Alba, who gave birth to baby girl

Honor in 2008, is expecting a secondchild later this summer.

“I can’t ever get down to the weightI was before I had Honor... My body’sjust different. The jeans just sort ofzip up differently, and things hangdifferently. It’s a miracle what hap-pens, but you definitely are differentafterward. Unless you’re Gisele,” dai-lystar.co.uk quoted the 30-year-oldas saying.

When Kelly Osbournewas mobbed as GagaSinger Kelly Osbourne was

a victim of mistaken iden-tity when she was “accost-

ed” by fans who thought shewas Lady Gaga.

The 26-year-old star wasforced to leave the Dolce andGabbana showroom, whereshe was having a dress fit-ting, after being mobbedby people who believedshe was Gaga, reports con-tactmusic.com.

Kelly revealed on herTwitter account: “Just hada fitting at Dolce & Gab-bana and they have tobe the nicest press officeever thank you so muchladies!” “I had to leave thisplace everyone thought Iwas @ladygaga and accost-ed me. I truly mean no disre-spect, I love @ladygaga butit’s too much for me to handle.I have a hole new respect!!!!!(sic),” she added.

“Harry Potter” actress Emma Watsonpartied at a pole dancing club tocelebrate the end of the popularfilm franchise.

Watson, who played HermioneGranger in the movie, went to theclub after the final premiere for“Deathly Hallows: Part 2”, which isthe last of the “Harry Potter” films,reports thesun.co.uk.

“She was really enjoying herself.There were a few scantily-clad girlsaround but Emma didn’t bat an eye-lid. There are a few poles in theclub but she didn’t have a go. Aftersuch a big night, it’s no wonder shewanted to let her hair down,” saida source.

She danced the night away withfriends.

“She had a smile on her face thewhole time before calling it a nightaround 2 a.m.,” added the source.

The actress was just 11 when shestarred in “Harry Potter and thePhilosopher’s Stone” and was 12when she featured in the “Chamberof Secrets”.

WATSON PARTIES AT POLE DANCING CLUB

MIRANDA KERR NAMESson after late boyfriend

Supermodel Miranda Kerrhas named her son FlynnChristopher Blanchard

Copeland Bloom after her lateboyfriend Christopher Middle-brook, who died in an car ac-cident as a teenager.

“Chris and I had been datingfor two years. After he died, Iwrote him a letter that said Ihoped to name my first childafter him in some way. I toldOrlando (Bloom), and he wasthe one who said he’d be happyto do that. Orlando’s a goodguy,” she told Australia’s theDaily Telegraph.

Kerr also says that her sonhas inherited his good looksfrom his actor-dad Bloom, re-ports people.com.

“He looks exactly like Or-lando did when he was a baby.His character is developingevery day. He’s content and,even though he’s teething, youcan see he’s calm,” she said.

Salman is a goodfriend of mine: Kat

I t seems it’s Emraan Hashmi or nothingfor Vishal Bhardwaj’s film “Daayan”!After some actresses said no to working

with the actor in the supernatural thriller,the filmmaker made it very clear that Emraanwas his top priority.

Said a source: “Both Vishal and (producer)Ekta Kapoor believe Emraan is the fulcrumof the script and the only non-negotiablemember of the cast.”

“Vishal thinks Emraan has huge potential.He wanted to cast Emraan in ‘7 Khoon Maaf’in the role that Irrfan Khan eventually didbut it didn’t work out.

“Emraan is in demand with several top-notch filmmakers. Rohan Sippy who wantedto cast him in ‘Dum Maro Dum’ is castingthe actor in his next. Dibakar Banerjee choseEmraan at the cost of losing Katrina Kaif inhis new film ‘Shanghai’,” the source added.

Vishal will shoot “Daayan” in the nextcouple of months.

The hunt for the three leading ladies isalmost over.

Said a source close to the project:“The minute it was made knownthat all the three leading ladies’parts were equally important, aqueue of girls showed up atVishal’s doorstep.”

The last we heard, JacquelineFernandez, Chitrangda Singh andMahie Gill had been shortlistedfor the three parts.

Itʼs Hashmiall the way

for Vishal Bhardwaj

Actress Katrina Kaif, who usually remainstight-lipped about her relationship sta-tus, told a fan that she is currently en-

joying her time with family and that SalmanKhan is her good friend.

During a chat with her fans on Airtel’s“Talk2Me” platform, when the 26-year-oldwas quizzed about her relationship, she said:“At the moment I am just with my family andnothing going on like that.”

When a fan said that people feel she looksgood with Salman Khan, the British-born ac-tress said: “Ya, he is a good friend of mine.”

The two were reportedly seeing each otherbut broke off last year.

The actress is currently busy promotingher upcoming film “Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara”,also starring Hrithik Roshan, Abhay Deol,Farhan Akhtar and Kalki Koechlin. The filmdirected by Zoya Akhtar will hit the screensFriday.

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